i misunderstood this initially and thought namdai was making its own clone...im a bit perplexed by this...is this gonna be like fzero x and star fox assault all over again? is there a reason hal cant do it? in b4 kirby and dedee dropped from roster.

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“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

For what I've read before, Nintendo wants to get the game out as soon as possible to get people interested in buying the Wii U and 3DS.

That and the fact that Project Sora (a miniature dev studio, like HAL Laboratories and Intelligent Systems, and the most recent project that the creator of Smash Bros) was shut down shortly after completing Kid Icarus might have something to do with it.

Of course, IIRC, Brawl had help from Game Arts so this isn't the first time the series has looked beyond Nintendo's own development studios and might even suggest that there won't be any Namdai representation herein.

Kinda weird how they haven't showed anything related about Fire Emblem for Smash yet. Maybe is still too soon for that.

Also is "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U" the name for the project now or the official name?

Way too soon. None of the FE characters have been available by default. I expect news on Captain Falcon, Luigi, or Ness before hearing about possible FE characters.

As for the name I'm suspecting that they're going to go by those names with SSB4 being the umbrella title (for instance "Megaman first appears in SSB4." whereas one would say that "The Spirit Tracks train stage only appeared in SSB3DS." instead of "The Spirit Tracks train stage only appears in the 3DS version of SSB4."). That's not to say that SSB4 wont get replaced later on with Super Smash Bros. Kerfuffle or something to that effect.